Vinanian Developments Ltd will work with Young and Gault Architects to deliver the plant at Site 1, Fifty Pitches Road.

When fully operational, the plant will operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, employing 56 people working on continuous shifts and receiving up to six lorry loads of plastic waste bales per day.

As well as the main production hall, an administration and welfare block will also be located at the site.

A statement submitted with the application explained: “The building is designed around a state-of-the-art production process for the recycling of waste plastics. The process generates almost no emissions.”

It added: “The proposals will make a positive contribution to the immediate area. The site is appropriate for the proposed use which will provide an exemplary facility of this type which will make a valuable contribution to the options available to improve recycling and reduce plastic waste going to landfill.

“The proposals will make a positive contribution to the immediate area. The site is appropriate for the proposed use which will provide an exemplary facility of this type which will make a valuable contribution to the options available to improve recycling and reduce plastic waste going to landfill.”